WHOLESALERS: FRESH FRUIT & VEGETABLES

To source wholesale fruit and vegetables, you could look first to support small farmers and growers in your area by contacting them about growing wholesale produce for you. If this isn’t possible, most towns and cities will have a wholesaler.

They’ll have a wide range of produce and so you’ll probably be able to get everything you want in one place, and they’re also likely to offer free local delivery, but are unlikely to offer much organic produce. There are wholesalers that specialise in supplying organics. These include:

It’s advised that you talk with the wholesaler about their substitution policy; if you’ve promised your customers that they’ll never receive air-freighted produce, you’ll need to check that the wholesaler won’t substitute your order of Kent cherries with cherries flown in from the USA.